WBWS Day 25

Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary

Day: 25

Date: 6/26/09

I know it’s been longer than it should have. My bad. Time really seems to fly here. Before I know it I wake up and it’s Friday morning and I’m heading home that afternoon. It’s nuts!
In the past few weeks I’ve done a combination of osprey computer work, observation, ground thruthing, as well as some day camp training to prepare me for the work I’ll be doing at the end of August. I spent most of Monday doing day camp training because the weather was so crappy and that was a fun mix up and it helped to get to know some of the new staff who are living in the dorms as well.
Tuesday was mostly computer work inside. I’ve been emailing volunteers with new nests that they can monitor as well as encouraging them and thanking them for their work as they report observations to be a few times a week. While sometimes they can be frustrating, as we are on two very different levels of understanding technology, they have been patient with me in getting everything organized and everything put into the computer.
Wednesday morning was some GIS mapping and research on how to get the software I need to do some great stuff. Wednesday afternoon I went out and observed the nest on Gross Hill Road. I couldn’t see any chicks but after the male brought a fish back, possibly a scup, I saw the female tearing up the meat and slowly lowering her head into the middle of the nest, so she must have at least one chick. Wednesday night was trivia night and that was fun as usual. Not that stipend debit card is activated and has money on it I was able to get dinner on the SCA.
Yesterday morning I worked on some maps in the morning and managed some 13 new sites that a volunteer sent into me earlier in the week. I went out in the huge van at 12 to meet one of my volunteers in Yarmouth for 12:30. Once we met up she accompanied me to the 5 or 6 sites I was monitoring in her area and she was a big help in navigating and spotting the nests, not to mention she was very enthusiastic!
Today I’ll be in the office this morning and I’m headed north to Truro to a fancier GIS lab to try and do some work on my model. After that I’m headed home for the weekend!
Off to write an inquiry email to a guy Tora tipped me onto about some sort term remote sensing work in Micronesia!